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Sand Hills Discovery Experience
Date: 7/13/2012 Album ID: 1501808
Photos by Corres pondent
The fossil quarry on State Highway 7 between Bassett and Springview saw activity during the annual Sand Hills Discovery Experience. Participants had a chance to dig and sift – finding an array of fossils in this ancient river bed, now perched high above the Niobrara River.
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Mike Voorhies (right), a paleontologist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, showed participants the best techniques to locate fossils in the sands of the fossil quarry.
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